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Plants For:
The Birds:
Blue False Indigo, Canada Wild Rye, Compass Plant, Cup Plant, Little Bluestem, Maxillian Sunflower, New England Aster, Pale Purple Coneflower, Blazing Stars, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Coneflower, Showy Goldenrod, Side Oats Gramma, Sweet Black Eyed Susan, Western Sunflower
The Butterflies:
Bergamont, Black Eyed Susan, Blazing Stars, Butterfly weed, Ironweed, Joe Pye Weed, New England Aster, Pale Purple Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Red Milkweed, Showy Goldenrod
The Hummingbirds:
Bee Balm, Blazing Stars, Butterfly Weed, Cardinal Flower, Columbine, Great Blue Lobelia, Lavender Hyssop, Lupine, MonkeyFlower, Northern Blue Flag Iris, Penstemon, Purple Coneflowers, Turtlehead, Wild Bergamont, Wild Petunia
Categories of Wildflowers/Grass:
Semi-Shade
Awl Sedge, Bleeding Heart, Foamflower, Fox Sedge, Golden Alexander, Jacob’s Ladder, Sea Oats, Solomon’s Seal, Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Tall Bellflower, Virginia Bluebells, Wild Geranium
Shady – Woodlands
These sites are partially to fully shaded.
Suggested species: Bottlebrush Grass, Black Cohosh, Bleeding Heart, Columbine, Fern Species, Foamflower, Ginseng, Goldenseal, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Jacob’s Ladder, Solomon’s Seal, Virginia Bluebells, Virginia Wild Rye, Wild Geranium, Wild Ginger
Sandy Soils on Upland Sites
These sites are sandy or rocky soils that are characterized by being dry most of the time.
Suggested species: Big Bluestem, Black Eyed Susan, Blue False Indigo, Blue Vervain, Butterfly Milkweed, Indian Grass, Lance Leaf Coreopsis, Little Bluestem, Lupine, Ohio Spiderwort, Purple Coneflower, Showy Goldenrod, Western Sunflower, Wild Bergamot, Wild Petunia
Deer Resistant Species
Big Bluestem, Bleeding Heart, Blue False Indigo, Butterfly Milkweed, Columbine, Culver’s Root, Fern species, Goldenrod species, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Jacob’s Ladder, Lobelias, Northern Blue Flag Iris, Sneezeweed, Switch Grass, Tall Bellflower, Wild Geranium, Wild Ginger
Plants to use as Groundcovers:
Bleeding Hearts, Blood Root, Columbine, Foamflower, HayScented Fern, Heart-leaf Golden Alexander, Jacob’s Ladder, Lady Fern, Trilliums, Virginia Bluebells, Wild Geranium, Wild Ginger
Plants for Wet Sites:
Awl Sedge, Bluejoint Grass, Blue Vervain, Bottle Gentian, Bristly Sedge, Cardinal Flower, Cinnamon Fern, Culver’s Root, Fowl Manna grass, Fox Sedge, Great Blue Lobelia, Joe Pye Weed, Lady Fern, Marsh Marigold, Monkey flower, New England Aster, New York Ironweed, Northern Blue Flag Iris, Rattlesnake Grass, Red Milkweed, Royal Fern, Switchgrass, Turtlehead, Tussock Sedge, Virginia Wild Rye, Wool Grass
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